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by rladd 6y ago
The big problem with the Oxford ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine that I haven't seen discussed much is that it doesn't seem to work very well. Viral gRNA was detected in nose swabs from all animals and no difference in viral load in nose
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by rladd 6y ago
This works on "tastes" at the lowest level definition of "taste", in other words tongue sensations. But what we think of as "taste" is actually a combination of this and of smell or aroma. Smell is much more co
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by rladd 6y ago
The Fed isn’t actually buying any stocks. And neither are companies diluting anybody to sell anything to the Fed. What the Fed is buying is bonds. Which are non-dilutive. I understand the sentiment, but let’s try to get the facts right
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by rladd 6y ago
This is claimed in the linked Wikipedia article to prevent phishing but how could it? If the phishing site presents a ui that looks like the real site, the user could be tricked into entering his real username/password which the attack
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by rladd 6y ago
For example?
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by rladd 6y ago
What's really odd about the linked article is that it's supposed to be a summary of this paper: https://download.nap.edu/cart/download.cgi?record_id=25776 The actual paper consistently says that homemade mask
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by rladd 6y ago
It definitely works but the flavor is different (not in a good way, just different) and it’s super high sodium.
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by rladd 7y ago
To be more exact, (in that study) the total percentage of patients who were initially put on the ventilator who survived for at least a year was 30%. Of the approximately 50% of patients who were on a ventilator and survived long enough to
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by rladd 7y ago
Putting it in those terms is far too charitable. It would cost LESS than the price of ONE B2 bomber (which was $2.1B... in 1997 dollars). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_B-2_Spirit
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by rladd 7y ago
I like https://covid19info.live the best so far. Unfortunately it doesn't show per 100K or # tested (which I would love to find, but haven't seen anywhere). The former should be quite easy to do, the latter appears to
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by rladd 7y ago
The linked page doesn't show the process clearly. Not sure about the target market, but it could be very helpful to show each step visually: 1) Print out QR codes for every table 2) Customer scans QR code 3) etc. (or if that's not
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by rladd 7y ago
I think it wasn't ACE inhibitors but sartans (telmisartan losartan, etc.) that were being discussed as possible prophylaxes, potentially via inhaler.
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by rladd 7y ago
True only for things that can be scaled. I don’t know what’s in this shrimp tissue culture medium but mammalian cell medium typically requires fetal calf serum. You can’t arbitrarily scale production of that.
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by rladd 7y ago
Disappointed that there was no reply to this from the developer. Apparently he either doesn't care about these issues or finds them too difficult to correct!
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by rladd 7y ago
I was hit by this charge too, when doing some test purchases. Support said "use test mode for that", but test mode is NOT adequate to fully test a live production system. The keys are different, the card numbers are different... i
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by rladd 7y ago
I think almost entirely in images, usually moving and relating to each other in 3D space. There are words mixed in, but when they come up they are usually just single words or a phrases which are attributes of something I'm thinking of
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by rladd 7y ago
Its the commercialization of this: A Periodic Diet that Mimics Fasting Promotes Multi-System Regeneration, Enhanced Cognitive Performance, and Healthspan https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(15)
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by rladd 7y ago
Yes, but a thought experiment is not a theory.
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by rladd 7y ago
Is that a theory or more of a very weak hypothesis?
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by rladd 7y ago
Am I missing something or wouldn't this be much (much) more efficient to do in SQL with a single parameterized query?
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by rladd 7y ago
I have a $12 Ikea clock that looks rather like a Swiss train clock (not exactly of course) and which keeps nearly perfect time and runs for over a year on one battery. It is miles better than the $5 Ikea clock, but I see no reason to pay mo
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by rladd 7y ago
Choke-full sounds appropriate in this case (since it's about people choking on their words, more or less), but the usual phrase is chock-full, meaning "packed full".
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by rladd 7y ago
Not if you use a box like Roku, etc.
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Ask HN: Experiences with Kickofflabs or other viral pre-launch services?
6 points by rladd 7y ago|0 comments
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by rladd 7y ago
I think the conclusion is probably right, but the experiment seems problematic. If I was told that a chauffeur was waiting for me to tell them where to take me, I might feel a little obligated to keep them busy rather than just waiting arou
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by rladd 7y ago
My guess is that they'd get much more (more than 10x) uptake at $1.99 than they will at $12.99. And they need volume to make it work. So this pricing seems like a big mistake to me.
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by rladd 7y ago
Because the sun is not the center of the universe in any sense other than that everything can always be considered the "center".
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by rladd 7y ago
You left out d) how long will it last? Fusion reactions produce lots of neutrons, and neutrons weaken metal, in many cases within a few hours. It may be that a "successful" fusion reactor is still a failure because it can run for
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by rladd 7y ago
My mother got a perfect 800 score on the GRE English test many years ago when she wanted to go back to graduate school after her children were grown up enough (highschool/college age). She told me that the way she got her perfect score
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by rladd 7y ago
Not a battery. It's a fuel cell that's "burning" aluminum by oxidizing it. Once the reaction is complete, you end up with basically aluminum ore that has to be re-refined, at great energy cost. My guess is that this is h

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